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Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
lbalbalba writes "A Dutch court ruled today that The Pirate Bay has to remove a list of torrents linking to copyrighted works. The list is to be provided by BREIN (similair to the RIAA, in Holland), and is similar to the earlier ruling against Mininova. The defendants are given three months to comply, if not, they will face penalties of 5,000 euros ($7,500) per person, per day."
It doesn't really matter if you get technical about it. As long as your intention clearly is to either do copyright infringement or aid in copyright infringement, no technical excuse will help you.
This is why The Pirate Bay lost in courts.
I suppose laws are "just pretend" to you as well. So the law that says you can't speed should be unenforceable because your car is clearly capable of speeding. The law that says you can't undress in public should be unenforceable because your clothes are clearly designed to be removable. Opium, Cocaine, Cannabis, etc. being plants or derived from plants are "infinitely reproduceable" (just plant the seeds to grow more), therefore why should it have any value? The very idea that something so easy to do should be considered illegal, and therefore be made valuable is preposterous in your world view, but your world view is not really connected to reality, is it?
Just because you can easily reproduce information does not mean you should have the right to so so. Once you take away the right to reproduce the data, your entire argument collapses like the house of cards it is. Because, while information may be infinitely reproducable, does not make it valueless when the copies are illegal. In addition, many people feel that the creator of the work should be compensated, not the Comcasts and AT&Ts of the world that merely provide the medium for distribution.
Grammar nazis are descended from a despicable breed of shit eating dogs. How those dogs ever managed to crossbreed with primates is being researched desperately, because no one understands the phenomena.
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